Exhibition Building

The Exhibition Building for Brussels: architecture and urban change in Europe which will take place from October 8 to November 28, picks up the initiatives carried out in Europe that can serve as reference in Brussels to tackle the problems of population growth, mobility, public infrastructure, urban economics, and international institutional events in the coming years. Projects chosen as reference in Madrid to face the problem of housing are the three unique buildings promoted by the Municipal company of land and housing. It’s the bamboo House, a building of 88 flats in Carabanchel, work of the architect Alejandro Zaera, who was awarded with the prize that grants the Royal Instite of British Architecs. The second building chosen is el Mirador, a 156 homes also known as vertical Apple by its original design and building designed by the firm MVRDV and Blanca and Lleo, also of the third building in Brussels, called lattice authors and that 146 official protection floors complies. Both buildings are located in the new district of Sanchinarro. Although these buildings are buying official protection floors, rental apartments in Sanchinarro offer is wide and because this belongs to the District of Hortaleza urbanization is still of very recent construction, the supply of flats are mostly of recent construction. On the other hand, in the section on mobility, reform of the M-30 will be at the exhibition. This performance has not only allowed to modernize this road to becoming an effective distributor of traffic around the city, but that has also made possible the increase of urban quality to create a big park on the surfaces freed from traffic and facilitate the recovery of spaces for pedestrians in the center of the city. Original author and source of the article.